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It's an incredibly dumb idea. Imposing living in the past because the older generation can't handle change.
by bigbacaloa 3y ago
It's an incredibly dumb idea. Imposing living in the past because the older generation can't handle change.
- hgomersall 3y agoI think the point is, and the evidence strongly supports this, the younger generation can't handle the change either.
- vasco 3y agoWhat's the evidence? I googled and found this for example refuting your claim, from just last year (5 year study, 263 people): https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13851 https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13851 > Stanford Medicine researchers did not find a connection between the age children acquired their first cell phone and their sleep patterns, depression symptoms or grades.
- another2another 3y agoCan't remember where, but I read an article where it mentioned that by the age of 11 up to 20% of children with smartphones had viewed hardcore porn, and some were regular consumers. Once a child of that age has a smartphone, they pretty much have _unfettered_ access to everything the internet has, or they will quickly find a way to. It only takes one peer (e.g. with older brothers) to turn the whole barrel rotten. As a parent already coming under pressure with an 11 year old, I'm not going to just blindly trust that one Stanford study, and instead listen to fellow parents, their experience and ideas, and above all wait for as long as possible before bowing to the inevitable.
- rescripting 3y agoJust last month the US surgeon general issued a warning on the “profound” risks of child social media use. https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-h...
- hgomersall 3y agoHere's a review that suggests some pretty negative effects: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.669042/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.6690...
- wiseowise 3y agoThis has nothing to do with past or future. Or having digital drugs is the future now and healthy is the thing of the past?
- Nasrudith 3y agoDigital drugs? Either you are unserious or you have fallen victim to hysteria. That very notion makes no goddamned sense. Do we call decks of cards paper drugs? Actual digital drugs would be literal magic.
- haswell 3y agoNot the parent, but quite serious. Social media apps have been carefully engineered to hijack evolutionary reward systems and quickly lead to addiction in most users. This is not idle speculation, and it’s been known for quite some time that these companies employ researchers and experts who maximize the addictive pull of these products through an understanding of human psychology. I’d argue that the analogy to drugs here is really an analogy to addiction, and there’s no magic involved in addiction: just exploitation of reward pathways leading to maladaptive behaviors. And we don’t see an increasing percentage of people walking across busy and dangerous intersections, driving on highways at high speed, walking through dangerous neighborhoods, etc. while looking down at a deck of cards, oblivious to the world around them.
- bluescrn 3y agoNot all change or even so-called 'progress' turns out to be a good thing
- rightbyte 3y agoAlgorithmic "social media" is so toxic that I think I would not be a sane parent to let my kids be there at all. It is not what it was when I grew up.
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- whywhywhywhy 3y agoThe fact every major phone OS manufacturer has implemented usage tracking and controls to limit it and companies like Instagram are having billboard campaigns about how to limit your usage of their app I think it's safe to stop pretending everything is fine at this point when even the people who build this things consider them bad for you.
- basisword 3y agoLet the kids buy their own $1000 smartphones and monthly data plans then. Nothing that expensive should be necessary for a kid to not feel left out.